Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Delaney, Katherine K.

Titel

Playing at violence: lock-down drills, 'bad guys' and the construction of 'acceptable' play in early childhood

Ist Teil von

• Early child development and care, 2017-06, Vol.187 (5-6), p.878-895

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

ERIC

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study examines how acceptable play was framed for a class of pre-Kindergarten children by their teacher and classroom aide. Using comic subjectivity theory [Zupančič, A. (2008). The odd one in: On comedy. Cambridge: MIT Press], the author explores how children's playing at pretend violence (bad guy and pretend gun play) is forbidden, but playing at real violence (in the form of active-shooter lock-down drills) positioned the children in the classroom as victims of violence, rather than agentic powerful players. As gun violence in the United States continues to invade school spaces, this paper crtitically examines how 'acceptable' play for young children is being framed and defined by outside forces rather than pedagogical and professional knowledge.